Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:35:44 -0800 | From | Tim Hockin <> | Subject | AIC7xxx and nasty EISA probing |
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Justin,
I hope you are still the maintainer of the linux aic7xxx driver, and this is not just stale info.
I have a user who is reporting nasty interference by the AIC driver into other devices. Digging shows the aic7770_linux_probe() routine doing EISA accesses to io-ports at will. I've seen the aic7xxx=no_probe comments, but I wanted to make a small suggestion.
I'd suggest you make no_probe be the default. I'd much rather see a CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROBE option which enabled EISA/VLB probing (which are probably the minority of devices) and did not interfere with the default PCI (which I'd guess to be a majority) systems.
If you'd like I can make a patch for this, but the changes should be very elementary.
As it is, the user has a work around, but I think the other way around would make a lot more sense and be a fair bit friendlier to the average user.
Thanks, and let me know if you want me to do the work.
Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances thockin@sun.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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